See below an algorithmically curated selection of under-the-radar startups demonstrating quantifiable momentum via third-party metrics. This edition primarily focuses on Seed - Series B companies in the Cryptocurrency space.
Company: Republic
Country (Operating): 149 East 23rd Street, Suite 2001, New York, NY 10010, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2016
Homepage: https://republic.co
Current Headcount: 349
Lifetime Funding: $214,025,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 8
Investors: Atreides Management, LP, Valor Equity Partners, Blockchain.com, Oyster Ventures, Pillar VC, Tribe Capital, Republic Capital, ZhenFund 真格基金, HOF Capital, Broadhaven Capital Partners, FBG Capital, Good Growth Capital, CoinFund, Motley Fool Ventures, NULL, Galaxy Interactive, East Chain Co., Borderless Capital, Brevan Howard, Nomura, Binance, ArkStream Capital, Holland George Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Jeffrey Tarrant, Meltem Demirors
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - October 19, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Real Estate / Property, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto, Gaming
Description: Republic gives people power to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, connected world, Republic has facilitated over $250 million in investments from over one million global community members. Headquartered in New York City with a team in six countries, Republic is backed by Binance, AngelList, Passport Capital, and more. For more information, visit republic.co
Company: FTX: Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange
Country (Operating): Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Founded Date: January 01, 2018
Homepage: https://ftx.com
Current Headcount: 123
Lifetime Funding: $1,328,700,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: Multicoin Capital, Abstract Ventures, 500 Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Altimeter Capital, Paradigm, Lemniscap, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Temasek, Kenetic, FBG Capital, Race Capital, IVP, DHVC, VanEck, Thoma Bravo, The 6ixth Event 🦕, Galois Capital, Greylock, mark vc, Senator Investment Group, Consensus Lab, BitScale, Sino Global Capital, 40 North Ventures, Willoughby Capital, BR Capital, ICONIQ Growth, Liquid Value Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Tiger Global Management, BlackRock, Third Point LLC, O’Leary Ventures, Exnetwork, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase, Genblock Capital, Binance, Evangelion Capital, Digital Currency Group, One Block Capital, Coinbase Ventures, SoftBank Group Corp., NULL, Sequoia Capital China, Kevin Han
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - October 21, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services
Description:
Company: CoinSwitch Kuber
Country (Operating): Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://coinswitch.co
Current Headcount: 176
Lifetime Funding: $300,470,702
Number of Funding Rounds: 4
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, Tiger Global Management, Kunal Shah, Sequoia Capital India, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase, Coinbase Ventures, Sequoia Capital China
Most Recent Funding: SERIES C - October 06, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: CoinSwitch Kuber is the largest crypto trading platform in India with a user base of 10M+, in just 15 months and growing every second. Currently we make buying and selling crypto as simple as online shopping - but at CoinSwitch we are not only building a unique product, we are defining an industry. Everyday we work on industry first problems with the resolve to bring out the best and most simple solutions for our users
Company: CoinList
Country (Operating): 850 Montgomery Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://coinlist.co
Current Headcount: 52
Lifetime Funding: $119,200,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 4
Investors: Agman, Electric Capital, Polychain Capital, Rising Tide VC, GoldenTree Asset Management, FBG Capital, Continue Capital, Libertus Capital, CoinFund, Accomplice VC, Blockchain Capital LLC, CMT Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Metaplanet Holdings, LD Capital, Perpetual Ventures, A100x, Collaborative Fund, Jack Dorsey, Dynamic Fintech Group, Alphemy Capital SA, Digital Currency Group, Hack VC, HashKey Capital, Jsquare, NULL, Juan Benet
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - October 26, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto, Consumer Software Services
Description: CoinList’s mission is to accelerate the advancement of blockchain technology. We do this by finding the best emerging blockchain projects and helping them succeed. We have become the global leader in new token issuance, helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Celo, Algorand, Dapper, and others connect with hundreds of thousands of new token holders. And we now support the full lifecycle of crypto investment, from token sales through token distribution, trading, lending, and crypto-specific services such as staking and access to decentralized-finance opportunities. CoinList users trade and store Bitcoin, Ether, and many other popular crypto assets through our full-service exchange, CoinList Pro, mobile apps and CoinList.co, while also getting access to the best new tokens before they list on other exchanges. Our customers include validators, miners, founders, CEOs, crypto funds, bitcoin OGs, as well as a broad array of crypto enthusiasts. Unlike other centralized crypto finance platforms, we’re not here to just build a bank or a brokerage. We’re building the platform for people who are passionate about moving crypto forward.
Company: dYdX
Country (Operating): 300 Broadway, Suite 29, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://dydx.exchange
Current Headcount: 29
Lifetime Funding: $76,960,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 4
Investors: GSR, Caffeinated Capital, Electric Capital, Abstract Ventures, GSR Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Hashed, Paradigm, Delphi Digital, Abstraction Ventures, Kindred Ventures, 1confirmation, Vy Capital, Craft Ventures, StarkWare, Wintermute, Bain Capital Ventures, CMT Digital, Scalar Capital, CMS Holdings, LLC, The Spartan Group, QCP Capital, RockTree Capital, DeFiance Capital, Kronos Research, BR Capital, Three Arrows Capital Pte Ltd, Menai Financial Group, Sixtant, mgnr.io, NULL, Elad Gil, Kevin Hartz, Naval Ravikant, Scott Belsky, Jack Herrick, Fred Ehrsam, Avichal Garg, Brian Armstrong, Christopher Golda, David King
Most Recent Funding: SERIES C - June 16, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Launch, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: dYdX is the most powerful open trading platform for crypto assets. dYdX offers decentralized derivatives, margin, and spot trading. Our mission is simple: To build open, secure, and powerful financial products that are equally available to everyone, everywhere.
Company: CoinDCX
Country (Operating): 105 Cecil Street, Number 07-02, The Octagon, Singapore, 069534, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://coindcx.com
Current Headcount: 184
Lifetime Funding: $109,024,345
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: Polychain Capital, Mehta Ventures Family Office Investments, Jump Capital, B Capital Group, Bain Capital Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, 100x Ventures, Cadenza Capital Management, Utsav Somani, Migration Capital, DG Ventures, Coinbase, Alexander Packard, IDG Ventures, Sanat Rao, NULL, Coinbase Ventures, B1, Sanjay Mehta, Alexander Pack, Jatin Aneja, Karn Nagpal, Rafael Ugolini, Sung Ho Choi
Most Recent Funding: SERIES C - August 10, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange. Our exchange is built with user experience and security in mind. The KYC and Bank Account verification are done within a few minutes and give users a smooth onboarding experience. We provide users single-point access to a diverse suite of crypto-based financial products and services that are backed by security processes and insurance. We have the highest number of cryptos listed in India and give instant fiat to crypto conversions free of charge. We also give instant deposit and withdrawal facilities. We charge the lowest trading and crypto withdrawal fees. The wallet structure is versatile and provides the best fee structure in the industry. Our proprietary aggregation model provides the highest liquidity from leading global crypto exchanges. We are an ISO certified company backed by reputed investors like Polychain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and HDR Group, operator of BitMEX. We offer a wide range of industry-first products that include: Insta - Buy/Sell Bitcoin & Altcoins instantly starting with INR 10 https://coindcx.com/insta/home Lend - Earn up to 10% APR through lending https://coindcx.com/lend Margin - Trade crypto across 250+ markets with 6X leverage. https://coindcx.com/margin/home Spot - Trade cryptocurrencies in 500+ markets with highest liquidity https://coindcx.com/trade/home Stake - Stake your crypto to earn easy income https://coindcx.com/staking Our online academy DCX Learn provides a platform for people through which they can gain knowledge about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It’s a part of our #TryCrypto initiative that aims to build an Indian crypto community of 50 Million people and has established itself as India’s largest crypto adoption movement.
Company: Yellow Card
Country (Operating): Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2014
Homepage: https://yellowcard.io
Current Headcount: 80
Lifetime Funding: $17,725,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 6
Investors: The Raba Partnership, Polychain Capital, Fabric Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Castle Island Ventures, Valar Ventures LLC, Atlanta Technology Angels, GreenHouse Capital Africa, Celo Ecosystem Fund, Metal VC, MoonPay, Third Prime, Coinbase, Fabrica Ventures, Blockchain Ventures (CVC), Square, Coinbase Ventures
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - September 27, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services
Description:
Company: TaxBit
Country (Operating): 14203 Minuteman Drive, Suite 201, Draper, UT 84020, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://taxbit.com
Current Headcount: 100
Lifetime Funding: $235,750,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: K2 Global, Winklevoss Capital, Dragonfly Capital, 9Yards Capital, Galaxy Digital, Paradigm, TTV Capital, Insight Partners, Sapphire, IVP, Valar Ventures LLC, Original Capital, Tiger Global Management, Anthony Pompliano, Madrona Venture Group, Collaborative Fund, Album VC, Global Founders Capital, Coinbase, PayPal, Emerson, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Michael Vaughan, Ryan Smith, Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, NULL
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - August 12, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: View the real-time tax impact of all your crypto transactions.
Company: XanPool
Country (Operating): 128 Prinsep Street, Number 01-01, Singapore, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://xanpool.com
Current Headcount: 14
Lifetime Funding: $27,006,430
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: Antler, OKCoin, Zilliqa, Valar Ventures LLC, CMT Digital, NGC Ventures, MXC Pro Capital, LongHash Ventures, OK Group, Gumi Cryptos Capital, LongHash, HashKey Group, Taavet Hinrikus
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - October 22, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto, Dev Tools
Description: XanPool is an open finance infrastructure company that makes sending all forms of money across the world faster, cheaper, and lower risk. We do this by building our own custom software APIs that allow individuals and businesses more functionality in their financial infrastructures (such as Bank accounts, E-wallets, and cryptocurrency wallets). XanPool Software users can trustlessly connect their financial infrastructure with other Software users across the world, creating a highly liquid and efficient C2C network, capable of routing and settling payments outside of expensive and slow legacy financial infrastructure
Company: imToken
Country (Operating): 9 Temasek Boulevard, Suite 04-02, Suntec Tower Two, Singapore, 038989, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2016
Homepage: https://token.im
Current Headcount: 27
Lifetime Funding: $30,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 3
Investors: 隆领投资股份有限公司, Breyer Capital, IDG Capital, Signum Capital, SNZ Holding Limited, Qiming Venture Partners, HashKey Group, TrueWay Capital, Xinjun Liang
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - March 31, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Oss, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Founded in 2016, imToken has served millions of users and exchanges billions. The product, imToken wallet is a mobile light-wallet, strives to provide a simple, secure and powerful digital asset management tool for users. Users are able to experience freedom in wallets creation/ importing, secure digital asset management, convenient transaction execution, real-time market updates, and explore the potential of DApps all with imToken. While users come from throughout the world, the company headquarters is in Singapore. The imToken wallet app and Tokenlon DEX shows our passion for building secure yet user-friendly products. Along with research at imToken Labs and the open source Token Core, imToken continues to innovate and lead in the blockchain space. Website: https://token.im Twitter: https://twitter.com/imTokenOfficial/ Email: support@token.im
Company: Vauld
Country (Operating): 160 Robinson Road, Number 14-04, Singapore Business Federation Centre, Singapore, 068914, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2018
Homepage: https://vauld.com
Current Headcount: 45
Lifetime Funding: $27,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Pantera Capital, Better, New Form Capital, CoinShares, Valar Ventures LLC, CMT Digital, LuneX Ventures, Robot Ventures, Paipal Ventures, Cadenza Capital Management, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Better Capital, Robert Leshner, Coinbase, NULL, Coinbase Ventures
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - July 29, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Ai / Ml, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Vauld aims to provide its users with a customer-centric banking solution leveraging blockchain. We intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services that ensure technologies based on the blockchain are usable as of today. Our asset-backed lending and borrowing platform currently support Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, BAT, XLM, USDT, USDC, BUSD, TUSD, and DAI. https://vauld.com/
Company: NFTically
Country (Operating): 3790 El Camino Real Unit, Suite 590, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2021
Homepage: https://www.nftically.com
Current Headcount: 17
Lifetime Funding: $500,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Sujeet Kumar, Gaurav Munjal, Surojit Chatterjee, Cindy Bi, Ramakant Sharma, Aakrit Vaish, Roman Saini, Jaynti Kanani, Nitish Mittersain, Kunal Kapoor
Most Recent Funding: SEED - October 12, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Saas, Blockchain / Crypto, Gaming, Dev Tools
Description: NFTically is a global B2B SaaS that enables celebrities, influencers, gamers, clubs & enterprises to launch their own white-label NFT store or NFT Marketplace without any technical knowledge. With NFTically, celebrities & enterprises can control the various aspects of their NFT hub like configurations, Blockchains pinning, analytics, user experience, APIs, integrations, custom terms & policies, etc.
Company: Matrixport
Country (Operating): Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://www.matrixport.com
Current Headcount: 77
Lifetime Funding: $100,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 3
Investors: Lightspeed China Partners, Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Castle Island Ventures, Paradigm, C Ventures, Palm Drive Capital, Bitmain, IDG Capital, DST Global, K3 Ventures, CMT Digital, Foresight Ventures, Standard Crypto, Longwin Capital, Tiger Global Management, Qiming Venture Partners, A&T Capital, Jihan Wu, NULL
Most Recent Funding: SERIES C - August 02, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Matrixport is Asia’ fastest growing one-stop digital asset financial services platform. With $10 billion in assets under management and custody, it provides one-stop crypto financial services with over $5 billion in average monthly trading volumes. The offerings include Cactus Custody™, spot OTC, fixed income, structured products, lending as well as asset management. Headquartered in Singapore, Matrixport’s mission is to make crypto easy for everyone and its motto is “Get More From Your Crypto”. The company has over 220 employees serving both institutions and retail customers in Asia and Europe.
Company: Biconomy
Country (Operating): 20A Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore, 088443, Singapore
Founded Date: January 01, 2019
Homepage: https://biconomy.io
Current Headcount: 24
Lifetime Funding: $10,500,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 3
Investors: Enabling Future, Outlier Ventures, NFX, CoinFund, True Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Eden Block, ZBScapital, Zee Prime Capital, TRGC, Digital Asset Capital Management, MiH Ventures, Woodstock Fund, Primitive Ventures, Rarestone Capital, Bain Capital, Mechanism Capital, Outlier Ventures Base Camp, Genblock Capital, Binance, BigONE Exchange, Morningstar Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Proof Group, James Simpson, Marwan Alzarouni, Meher Roy, Stani Kulechov, Prabhakar Reddy, NULL
Most Recent Funding: SEED - July 28, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Biconomy is a developer platform that empowers blockchain developers to enable a simplified transaction and onboarding experience for their Web3 project. The plug-n-play solution allows Web 3 interactions to be smooth and seamless between DApps and end-users by removing blockchain complexities. We do this by providing a multi-chain non-custodial, and gas efficient relayer infrastructure network that enables meta transactions at scale. As a team of Web 3.0 evangelists, we strive to solve complex problems, challenge the status quo and to continuously learn from our mistakes. We are on a fun and inspiring journey in enabling the digital economies of the future. All of our team love having virtual get-togethers, game-nights and whilst we are fully remote, we have awesome in-person team retreats. We are currently developing a platform (an SDK and dashboard) that utilizes the merits of meta transactions to allow end-users that are unfamiliar with crypto to seamlessly use dApps without them having to learn about wallets, crypto and paying transaction fees. If you want to be a part of the future of the internet and are passionate about crypto – our team is for you!
Company: Messari
Country (Operating): 1460 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, United States
Founded Date: January 01, 2018
Homepage: https://messari.io
Current Headcount: 93
Lifetime Funding: $26,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 4
Investors: Winklevoss Capital, Kraken, Anthemis Group, Fabric Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Rising Tide VC, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Uncork Capital, Inc, Kindred Ventures, DHVC, CoinFund, Semantic Ventures, Underscore VC, Blockchain Capital LLC, Fenbushi Capital, Al Borg Diagnostics, Blockchain Ventures, Garry Tan, A100x, Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase, Blockchain Ventures (CVC), Digital Asset Investment Company, Tom Glocer’s Blog, Jay Batson, Pamir Gelenbe, Diogo Monica, Nascent, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, NULL, Cypher Capital LLC, Alameda Research Ventures, Tom Glocer, Balaji S., Meltem Demirors
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - August 05, 2021
Sectors: Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Messari is a fast growth startup in New York that is building the next generation data layer for the global cryptoasset community. We believe data is knowledge, and with knowledge, you can invest with confidence. But getting information you can trust in the crypto world is hard. Our mission is to drive factual crowd-sourced information and data transparency across every corner of the emerging token ecosystem by building an open data library for blockchain projects and cryptoassets. We are applying ideas of open data and crowdsourcing to financial services, giving investors the tools they need to separate the wheat from the chaff, and helping enable smarter regulation along the way.
Company: Cobo
Country (Operating): Beijing, Beijing, China
Founded Date: January 01, 2017
Homepage: https://cobo.com
Current Headcount: 36
Lifetime Funding: $50,474,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: FreeS Fund 峰瑞资本, IMO Ventures, Linear Capital, DHVC, DST Global, Wu Capital (双湖资本), BN Capital, A&T Capital
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - September 23, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Military / Defense, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto
Description: Cobo is the first leading wallet company in the world to offer Staking and masternode rewards on user holdings, making it easy for users to grow their digital assets effortlessly. As a company, we emphasize long-term security, reliability, and convenience. Our key products and services reflect that vision. Altogether, Cobo offers a secure mobile wallet (Cobo Wallet), high-end cold storage wallet for advanced users (Cobo Vault), and custodial services for institutional investors. With support for over thirty different coins, 700 tokens, and an integrated DApp store along the way, we aim to be a one-stop shop for everything crypto. For more information about Cobo, visit http://cobo.com
Company: Figment
Country (Operating): Toronto, Ontario M6R 1H2, Canada
Founded Date: January 01, 2018
Homepage: https://figment.io
Current Headcount: 67
Lifetime Funding: $53,500,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 5
Investors: CRCM Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, GSR Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Hard Yaka, Lemniscap, FJ Labs, 10T Holdings, Liberty City Ventures, Prota Ventures, Senator Investment Group, XDL Capital Group, BKCM, 40 North Ventures, JPK Capital, Declaration Partners, AVA Labs, Andrew Cronk, GFT Ventures, NULL
Most Recent Funding: SERIES B - August 16, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Blockchain / Crypto, Security / Encryption Tech, Cybersecurity, Dev Tools
Description: Figment: Blockchain Simplified Based in Canada, serving customers worldwide, Figment is the country’s largest blockchain infrastructure, and services provider. At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. This is Figment’s unique approach: we make it simple to build on the next generation of blockchain technology. We provide enterprise grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and developer tools while also actively participating in community & governance.
Company: Pintu
Country (Operating): The City Tower Lantai 27, Jalan M.H Thamrin Number 81, Jakarta, 10310, Indonesia
Founded Date: January 01, 2020
Homepage: https://pintu.co.id
Current Headcount: 148
Lifetime Funding: $41,000,000
Number of Funding Rounds: 2
Investors: Pantera Capital, Blockchain.com, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Castle Island Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Alameda Ventures, The Spartan Group, Blockchain Ventures, Assegaf Hamzah & Partners (AHP), Coinbase, Blockchain Ventures (CVC), PT Gesit Perkasa, Alameda Research Ventures, Jonathan Chu
Most Recent Funding: SERIES A - August 09, 2021
Sectors: Financial Technology, Financial / Insurance Services, Bitcoin, Blockchain / Crypto, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Description: Pintu is a mobile first digital asset (blockchain based) platform that offers customers the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize their blockchain based assets. Our name is derived from the Indonesian word for door, just like doors, our app provides the opportunity to access a new open financial system and when closed allows for the safekeeping of assets stored on our platform. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards an open financial system.